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Alan Smithee posted:Everest Eliminators sounds like a deadly obstacle course on the top a game of screaming, hallucinations, ice axes, lethal pratfalls, sabotaging supplies, and a prominent but unexplained poop meter that keeps going up no matter what you do
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Fish Noise posted:ice axes my plan is to read this in both senses always
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(the plaque reads) Hier fiel Für seine Heimat Sepp Innerkofler Here fell [I have no idea if this is "fell, died" or "fell, off a cliff" in the original German] for his home Sepp Innerkofler. I am mildly surprised that the Italians haven't corrected the plaque to "in order to invade somebody else's country".
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Arsenic Lupin posted:(the plaque reads) Yup, it's the former, as in "the fallen" of a country in a past conflict.
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Fish Noise posted:my new game concept: Death Zone Battle Royale We’re practically there. Just needs the poop meter
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Arsenic Lupin posted:(the plaque reads) But was that Austria-Hungarian territory prior to the First World War? Keep in mind Italy actually invaded Austria during the First World War. In fact, much of what is now the “Italian Alps” was actually Austria-Hungarian territory prior to the end of World War One.
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ZombieLenin posted:But was that Austria-Hungarian territory prior to the First World War? Keep in mind Italy actually invaded Austria during the First World War. In fact, much of what is now the “Italian Alps” was actually Austria-Hungarian territory prior to the end of World War One. Ohhhhh! Thanks for the new info.
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Or was it merely real Rome taking back what was hers from the Holy Roman Empire
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ZombieLenin posted:But was that Austria-Hungarian territory prior to the First World War? Keep in mind Italy actually invaded Austria during the First World War. In fact, much of what is now the “Italian Alps” was actually Austria-Hungarian territory prior to the end of World War One. Well, much of what is Northern Italy today was Austro-Hungarian territory. Italy, as a nation, only formed in the 1800s and the two major recurring themes was getting Austria out of "their" territory and the conflict for supremacy between the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia and the Kingdom of Two Sicilies. You also had the entire business with the Papal States. The Kingdom of Venetia didn't get taken from Austria until 1871. "Invaded" and "taken back" are slightly fraught concepts when the national identifies at play are still forming. This particular peak was indeed part of the gains from WW1 though.
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Go, tell the Goths, stranger passing by
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Munin posted:Well, much of what is Northern Italy today was Austro-Hungarian territory. Italy, as a nation, only formed in the 1800s and the two major recurring themes was getting Austria out of "their" territory and the conflict for supremacy between the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia and the Kingdom of Two Sicilies. You also had the entire business with the Papal States. The Kingdom of Venetia didn't get taken from Austria until 1871. Of course they are, and call on notions of nationalism that do no longer operate in the same ways as nationalism does today. My response was not, under any circumstances an attempt to explain the nuisance of the relationship between the nationalistic components present in the Habsburg Empire and Italian Irredentism. Instead it was to say precisely that the language of invader and invaded in this case is quite complicated; as a result of this, the original commentary about the Italians changing the signs fails in the face of that complexity.
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ZombieLenin posted:Of course they are, and call on notions of nationalism that do no longer operate in the same ways as nationalism does today. yup, just wanted to expand on what you touched on.
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Alan Smithee posted:We’re practically there. Just needs the poop meter Just throw a bitch off a mountain. The poop meter needs to be a scheduled event like in Mario Party; after a certain number of turns the poopslide commences
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Alan Smithee posted:Everest Eliminators sounds like a deadly obstacle course on the top Alastair Reynolds' Diamond Dogs but with Everest.
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Climb it in winter with no oxygen? Temps have been as low a -26 this week? Why not? https://weather.com/news/news/2020-01-15-climbers-attempt-rare-everest-winter-summit Mr. Funny Pants fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Jan 16, 2020 |
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Seems somehow more sane than attempting a K2 summit
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Sickos: Yes! hahahah yes!
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This is a pretty elaborate suicide pact.
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quote:This will be his first-ever attempt to summit Everest, and he told Rock and Ice he hoped to make his final push by Feb. 29. He said chances of success are slim, but he will try again. Sounds pretty pragmatic but I worry for them. That is a level of cold that I cannot completely comprehend, on top of the other dangers of Everest.
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Wasabi the J posted:Sounds pretty pragmatic but I worry for them. That is a level of cold that I cannot completely comprehend, on top of the other dangers of Everest. Death is very pragmatic yes
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german winter climber dude: "And here’s something I want to emphasize strongly: This is not an expedition where I want to push by all means to the summit. This is basically a training expedition, you know? I’m going there, I’m checking out the microclimate, the route, the conditions, and I’m building up experience that will be very valuable for a second try," Kobusch said. "Because for the first try, to be realistic, maybe there’s a 5 percent chance of being successful. Maybe even lower." sounds like they know their rear end from a crevasse. godspeed, crazy dudes
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Wasabi the J posted:Sounds pretty pragmatic but I worry for them. That is a level of cold that I cannot completely comprehend, on top of the other dangers of Everest. Eh, after about -20 it all feels the same. Granted that same is loving Cold(tm) but its not like humans don't routinely live in those temperatures in other areas of the world.
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Oracle posted:Eh, after about -20 it all feels the same. And routinely drop dead on accident while living in those conditions when they get trapped away from shelter for relatively short lengths of time.
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Alan Smithee posted:Death is very pragmatic yes I meant to say the climbers sound pragmatic.
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This years climbing season is going to have quite a spicy twist to it. such titles up for grabs like first super spreader to die at the summit.
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Mallory already has the title of First Perineum Sun Tanner on Mt Everest
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Fumble posted:This years climbing season is going to have quite a spicy twist to it. Green boots is hereby replaced by blue balls as deathzone landmark
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What's that mountain in the UK that people die on?
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LongDarkNight posted:What's that mountain in the UK that people die on? Conservatism?
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Snowdon - the deadly tourist trap? Or the Gairngorms for somewhere that manages to occasionally kill the SQEP.
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Brexit? Hehehehehe
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https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/mt-everest-winter-climbers-ascent-12480294 The rare turn back and sanity prevented that winter ascent.
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Noooo the mountain needs blood or it will uproot and March on the world until it gets it
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lmao took a wrong turn and died on the wrong mountain
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Alan Smithee posted:Noooo the mountain needs blood or it will uproot and March on the world until it gets it chomolungma/rampage 2020
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George H.W. oval office posted:https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/mt-everest-winter-climbers-ascent-12480294 drat, the guy who was doing it solo with no oxygen made it past 7000 meters and turned back. That takes some serious discipline and smarts.
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What happened to the polish guy who got so drunk he thought he could wing it on a day trip
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He disappeared into the world.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:drat, the guy who was doing it solo with no oxygen made it past 7000 meters and turned back. That takes some serious discipline and smarts. He also said from the start that he didn't expect to climb the mountain this winter - his whole plan was to scout the route and maybe he'd get lucky but probably plan to come back next year and go for it for real that time.
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